A/N - I have no idea what this is but I got bored and wrote some shit and this is the result.

Rated M for Gore and Swearing

Enjoyyyyyyy

Orario, the city of dreams, the hope for the hopeless, the home of heroes. People come here for all sorts of reasons, wealth, fame, power, and more. And although it is true you can come here and hit it big, that isn't the whole truth. This ideal city people speak of only exists in peoples head, the real city, the truth, comes in the form of The Trench a city underground the pleasure district, a crime ridden dystopian society, this is the place of the unspoken, the home for the homeless and the one place Orario puts all of its "mistakes". Everyone there is either a crook or an addict, people society does not seem worthy. Because of this everyone in The Trench is written off, as nothing more than street trash. But every now and then an event will happen, something so outrageous that Orario is forced to step in.

Loud noises fill the bar, talking, singing, arguing, and laughter filling the ears of every person there. And in this moment a rather strange thing occurs, a small 13 year old boy with white hair walks in. Some look at him with curiosity, as it was strange to see someone so young walk in here alone. He walks up to the bartender and says "Mischief Delight, please." The bartender hesitates, seemingly scanning the young boy. After looking him up and down for a while he sighs and reaches under the counter, he grabs a small glass and a tinted bottle with some liquid within it. He pours the drink in the glass and hands it over to the young boy, the kid smashes it back in one gulp and looks in the cup. On the bottom of the cup it reads 1 customer, Black Robe, Back left. The kid looks up and nods, he then walks over to the man sitting in the back left of the bar, face covered by a black cloak.

The kid sits and the cloaked figure asks, "What do you want, kid?"

The small boy sighs "Barman says you need my help with something."

The figure hesitates and then leans in, "So you are the infamous Shadow Walker, I was expecting something older."

The kid raises his eyebrows quickly and says "Sorry if I disappointed you. So do you want my help or not?"

The cloaked figure chuckles a bit and then says "I mean no offense, and yes I do need your help. You see, recently someone stole something very precious to me, I need you to get it back."

The kid looks at the figure unamused and says "What is it?"

The cloaked figure responds "It's a small black crystal that I need for… certain experiments. You'll know when you see it. The person who stole it has it hidden in a warehouse on the opposite side of Orario, it's heavily guarded and I'm sure it would be in your best interest to stay unnoticed."

The kid stares at the shaded face of the figure and says straight faced "Payment?"

The figure responds "fifty thousand half upfront, half right now."

The kid sits and thinks for a bit and says "Deal. Be back in one week and I'll have your crystal." The kid stands up and walks out, seemingly tired from the long day.

As he walks through the Trench he sees a sight that even for a kid seemed incredibly weird. As he walks he sees an orange haired elf walking nervously through the street. The kid takes a second and then smiles. Everyone knows that in the trench anyone who shows one ounce of fear and people will jump on the opportunity.

He goes up to her and "accidently" bumps shoulders with her and says "Oh I'm sorry miss, are you okay?"

The elf seemingly jumps in fear and scurries away much to the young man's surprise. He shrugged and looked at the book that he had stolen from the girl's bag and kept walking to his home. He walks through the street until he takes a turn and is greeted by a score of homeless people resting. He walks through alleys and past the homeless remaining unphased as he is used to this sight now. He walks into a makeshift room with a blue tarp as a door, and he lays down on an old mattress and sighs. He stares upward for a bit seemingly reflecting on his day until he sits up and reaches over to the book he stole from the girl, he inspects it and notices the title is in a different language, he thinks it looks elvish but he recognises it looks a little strange. He inspects it a little more and then opens it.

As he does he hears a voice in his head.

What is magic to you?

In a daze he responds "The ability to overcome any challenge."

What form does magic take?

Once again he responds "A bright light, blinding anyone that gets in my way."

What will you achieve with magic?

He hesitates and says "I'll make people notice me, I'll show them that I'm worth something."

And in that moment the young kid falls unconscious as the contents of the book disappears not to be known by anyone in the future. And as the young boy sleeps leaving the night in a peaceful slumber there is another who had a rather stressful night.

"Gods I never should've decided to come get this, everyone here is so scary." Lefiya says to herself, shaking slightly. When she told Riveria that she would collect this book for her she hadn't imagined this place would be so scary.

As she paced through the lanes of the Trench a white haired boy had bumped her shoulder and quickly said "Oh I'm sorry miss, are you okay?" Lefiya looks up to see blood red eyes meeting hers. She yelps and scurries away, "Oh gods, oh gods." She reaches the stairs to go upward onto the surface and runs up them, as she reaches the surface of Orario she takes a deep breath as her heartbeat begins to calm and her hands stop shaking she begins to walk home.

It takes a little bit but she eventually walks through the front door of the Twilight Manor, she leans over exhausted with her hands on her knees. As she begins to rest she notices Riveria walk past and she straightens herself and says "Miss Riveria, I retrieved your book."

Riveria smiles looking at her student and says "Good job Lefiya, could I have it now so I can store it properly." She reaches out a hand in an attempt to grab the book.

Lefiya smiling says "Yes ma'am," She looks to her left into her bag to see it is already unbuttoned. She opens it fully and her heart sinks as she sees an empty bag. "What, WHAT!"

Riveria looks at her slightly panicked, "Is something wrong."

Lefiya started shaking again and said "Oh no no no, It was right here, I had it, I had it."

Riveria looks at her a little scared "Lefiya, where is my book?"

Lefiya looks up nervously and in a shaky voice says "Um, well, I picked it up. Put it in my bag, and then come back."

Riveria asks again "So where is my book?"

Lefiya starts shaking a little more whilst avoiding eye contact "Uhm, I think I lost it."

Riveria's eyes widened in fear and anger "WHAT!" Lefiya flinches, and Riveria starts pacing back and forth muttering to herself until she says "Go wake up Finn I need to talk with him."

Lefiya nods quickly and scurries away, Riveria takes a deep breath and say "Oh gods, what should I do."

Four Days Later

The sun is falling on Orario once more, it has been a strange week for Orario. Everyone is talking about the Loki's being all up in arms about something. It's weird to see such a powerful force freak out about something, even sending people down into the trench. But on a more interesting note there's a small white haired kid having a bit of a more confusing week.

Bell walks out of the trench cloaked in darkness, the previous days he has had a weird feeling but for the most part he is ignoring it so he can focus on the job. He easily found the warehouse and has planned a route, if all goes according to plan he'll be in and out without a problem.

As he's walking, a conversation caught his attention. "You hear about the Loki's?"

"Yea there all panicking looking for something"

"Wonder what they're looking for."

"Especially because they're sending people you know where."

Bell hears this small snippet of the conversation and takes a mental note of it, but there is something more important to him right now. That being the guarded warehouse he is staring at right now. He has taken notes on the guard rotations and he knows in about 34 seconds he will have an opening to sneak through the window a floor above the entrance. As Bell sits there waiting he feels it again, that strange feeling in his hands comes back, it's almost as if something is flowing through them. As he waits he sees that the rotations started and he begins climbing up onto the rooftop adjacent to the building. He jumps in through the window and lands on a catwalk within the warehouse, a little louder than he had hoped but he believed that no one heard him. He begins looking around within the warehouse and from first glance he can tell that this crystal was going to be in a shipping container. But now the hard part comes, which one? There's about thirteen in total and frankly he doesn't have time to look through all of them, so unfortunately this part will come down to luck. He scans the area then jumps down to ground level, he walks up to the first crate and takes a lockpick out of his pocket. Even though he is still young he has become a master in the art of theft, there isn't much else to do after all.

He unlocks the crate and it opens revealing all sorts of things, books, tools, monster drops, etc…. But from first glance it doesn't seem to be in here so he leaves it for the next one. He does the same lockpicking then opening it. This one Bell finds to be a little stranger, it has lots and lots of blazerocks. At this point Bell has put together that this is definitely an armory or an area where items for an attack will happen. He doesn't think something important will be shoved in around them so he decides to leave this one alone. He walks up to the third crate and once again opens it. As he does he smiles and says "There you are beauty."

He walks forward and stands over a small glass case covering the black crystal. He then puts on a glove and starts feeling around the case, a common practice to catch rookie thieves is to have a wire that will close the door behind them, but this is no novice as Bell quickly identifies the wire and "disarms it" he chuckles to himself silently as he remembers when he was foolish enough to fall for something like that. After checking for any traps he takes the case off of the crystal and picks up his loot. He continues to smile as he walks out "Heh heavily guarded my a-"

The second he takes a step out of the container he is greeted with a large dwarven fist to the side of his face. He gets sent flying into the wall and as he lands he coughs up a little bit of blood. "What little rodent snuck into my hoard."

Bell gets up still a little dazed and he sees a large dwarvish man with an eyepatch and an axe smiling at him. "Hello little boy, what's your name?" Bell quickly starts thinking of ways to get out but sees his planned exit is behind the dwarf, and the only thing that could be used for fighting on him is a couple throwing knives.

As Bell's mind is racing the dwarf sends another punch sending him flying in front of the crates he had opened previously. "Not a talker huh"

The strange feeling starts pulsing stronger than ever, as if it was calling, screaming out for something. Bell looks up from his hands to see the dwarf walking over again. "If you ain't gon let me play I'll just end you right now."

The dwarf walks to stand over him and holds his axe, Bell starts to panic breathing heavily and shaking. His life flashing before his eyes and then in one final swing the axe Bell resigns to his fate closing his eyes, accepting the end of his life.

As Bell puts his hands up in a last desperate attempt to protect himself he waits for death to claim his soul. But as he waits nothing happens, he opens his eyes to see he is holding a spectral green sword, as well as his body glowing a bright green. The dwarf looks down in shock and anger as the boy is clashing with the axe that should've entered his head moments before. Bell looks at his hands "What the hell."

The dwarf backs up and smiles a little bit "So, you can play with me."

Bell hastily gets up his mind still racing and says "Sorry, I'm not one for games." And in that moment Bell throws his throwing knife and it goes flying towards the dwarf. He smiles as he easily dodges it. He smiles and opens his mouth to talk, but behind him a crate full of blazerocks had a different idea. The knife cracks one of the blazerock causing a chain reaction of explosions. Apparently other crates had blazerocks as well which also exploded causing the entire warehouse to collapse. Bell is blown back in the warehouse as this massive explosion destroys all of which is in its path.

Everyone in the area turns to see the massive explosion, followed by smoke signaling a fire. People nearby start to run away seemingly afraid of the large blast except one person. A green haired elf who starts running towards the fire.

Bell tries to get up but a large portion of debris is sitting on his legs. Bell with his ears ringing looks to his left and sees a head with blood gushing out the neck and brain. He looks in horror as he sees the rest of the body leaking blood out of the once mighty dwarfs body. Bell throws up at the sight of this extreme gore, he looks back to his legs which are seemingly trapped under debris. Bell takes a couple deep breaths and tries to lift the large debris, but his unblessed body can't do anything against the large object pinning him down. He takes a couple more deep breaths and tries to lift it once again. This time he feels the strange feeling in his hand once again, and as he tries again the green glow returns and he easily shoots the large debris off of his legs. Bell looks surprised by his own power as he sits up. He inspects his hands glowing a bright green.

Once the explosion happened Riveria immediately started running to help but this is not something she had anticipated. Before her is a young human boy who is seemingly using the power of elfish royalty. Her mind starts racing, seemingly trying to think of any explanation for a human to be wielding that power. She calls out in a state of confusion "Hey you."

Bell jolts upward startled and by the sight of another stranger he starts to back off

Riveria seemingly sensing his fear puts a hand out and in a calm voice "Hey, hey calm down, my names Riveria what's yours?"

Bell doesn't care though, as he is still in flight or fight mode and seeing a random person he immediately starts running away. Riveria recognises this and starts chasing after him. Through alleys, past roads, etc…. At some point even though she is far faster than him, he knows the streets much better and eventually could break away from her pursuit. He eventually leaves her lost in Orario and he finds his way back into the Trench. Bell looks down at his arm which is broken and bleeding. His whole body is bleeding profusely and he can tell he is losing a lot of blood and he needs treatment fast. He starts walking deeper into the trench until he comes upon a small building. He knocks on the door and the slit on the door opens and says "Password?"

Bell goes "Fuck off it's me."

The door repeats "If it's really you you would know the password."

Bell sighs and rubs his forehead. "Oh my god," He clicks his tongue and says "Ahh I need the best, most handsome doctor to save me."

The door swings open and Bell is greeted by a lively older man "Oh it was you Bell, come in let me help you."

Bell is guided to a table covered in stains of blood. He lays down and says "You know Dhothus, you really should clean this place sometime."

He responds "You're here every week, why don't you clean it."

Bell rolls his eyes, and Dhothus walks over to him holding medical supplies. He starts stitching the cuts back together. "What the hell happened to you?"

Bell groans in pain Dhothus starts stitching another rather big cut. "I was on a job, I got caught in a fight, it led to an explosion."

Dhothus still concentrating says "Damn, It's not everyday someone catches you in the act, were they blessed?"

Bell nods and tightens his fist in pain. Dhothus looks up from his work, "You need to be careful, everyday Orario gets stronger. Us Trenchers are being left further and further behind everyday."

Bell sighs and puts his head down and looks at the ceiling. He thinks to himself for a bit and says "Hey, something weird happened today."

Dhothus says "Beyond the fact you almost died?"

Bell takes a deep breath and says "For the past week I've had this weird feeling. Like something flowing through my body." Dhothus looks from his work, "And when I got caught during my job tonight, a dwarf started attacking me. Right before he was about to kill me something happened, my body started glowing green and a sword appeared in my hand."

Dhothus stares Bell in the eyes, seemingly searching for a lie, but the truth is the only thing he could find. He looks back down and continues working, "What do you think it was."

Bell responds "I don't know, it all started when I read this book I pocketed some elf."

Dhothus now moving to Bell's other arm asks "Maybe it was a grimoire?"

Bell groans once again and says "The fuck is a grimoire?"

Dhothus replies "It's a book that gives people magic powers. I've never heard of it working for an unblessed person like you. Let alone an unblessed human." Bell makes a sound of confusion and then Dhothus asks "Want me to look into it?"

Bell nods and says "Yes, thank you."

Bell sits and thinks for a bit and time begins to pass. A little over 2 hours later Dhothus finished patching Bell up and helped him back over to his "house". As Bell walks past the "door" Dhothus tells him "Take those pills, it'll numb some of the pain, come back in three days to get more. No excessive movements, and absolutely no fighting. Got it"

Bell says in a monotone voice without turning around "Thank for your help Dhothus."

3 Days Later

The days following were slow, Bell barely left the "house" and only did when he needed to go get food. But tonight is the night that the exchange is supposed to happen. Bell walks out of his house and begins to walk over to the tavern where he will exchange the crystal for the money. Along the way people are looking at him weird which Bell questioned because unless they somehow knew what he did they wouldn't have any reason to even notice him. He walks into the bar and he notices the man cloaked in black once again sitting in the back left of the bar. He walks over to the man and sits opposite to him again. "I heard you made quite the splash on the surface." The cloaked man says.

Bell rolls his eyes "You got my money or what?"

The cloaked figure laughs at the annoyed boy and says "First I need my crystal."

Bell pulls out a ball of cloth and opens it revealing the black crystal within. The cloaked man takes it and then throws a pouch of coins to Bell. The man walks off and Bell leans back and then also heads out of the bar. He once again heads over to Dhothus as he just ran out of his pain killers and doesn't care to suffer for a couple more days.

As he's walking he hears a girl's voice yell out "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH." Bell jumps in surprise and starts to run straight towards the scream.

He runs and runs, through alleys and roads. As he's running through the road he stops as he sees that in a darkened alley, a pool of blood is leaking out of the darkness. He slowly goes and walks towards it and sees that there is a trail of blood leading deeper into the shadow. Bell takes a deep breath and starts walking deeper into the shadow. He slowly walks following the trails of blood until he comes upon a turn in the alley. When he peers around the corner he sees an orange haired elf laying up against a side of the building with blood spilling out of her stomach. "help me" she whimpers out as she falls to the ground.

Bell runs over to the bleeding elf and frantically asks "Are you okay? What happened to you?" But the elf falls unconscious before she can answer any of his questions. Bell looks around quickly, seemingly scanning the area for what could've done this. He sees nothing and looks back at the elf. She's losing lots and lots of blood, and in an instant he picks her up and starts running. He sprints and sprints until once again he ends up in front of a small building, he opens the door to see Dhothus eating dinner while reading a book.

Dhothus turns to see a panicked Bell covered in the blood of an elf. He sits up and hustles over and tells Bell "Put her on the table."

Bell rushingly lays her down on the operating table, and Dhothus comes back with some tools and bottles. "Here, give her this." He hands Bell a red potion and he feeds it to the dying elf. As he does he can see the wounds start to heal. Dhothus takes a deep breath and hovers his hands over the large wound on the elves stomach. Bell hears Dhothus mutter a chant and sees a white glow around his hands. Bell recognises this as one of Dhothus's healing spells that he uses in the most important times. About an hour later Bell and Dhothus are able to stabilize her condition through the use of stitches, potions, and healing magic. As they finish they both collapse into chairs exhausted.

"What the fuck happened to her?" asks Dhothus

"Dunno, found her in the alleys in a pool of blood. I think she's the same girl I found that book off of." Bell replies.

"I'm surprised you even came back here, I would've thought you would hang out in your little shack before things calm down." Dhothus says.

"Till what calms down?" Bell wonders.

"You haven't seen?" Bell shakes his head. Dhothus sighs and then walks over to the trash can and picks out a crumpled piece of paper. He hands it to Bell and says "Congrats, you're a wanted man."

Bell looks at the paper to see a drawing of himself with the text: Wanted, Prize 100,000 gold, Deliver to Loki Familia ALIVE.

Dhothus laughs "And your problem just got worse." He looks to the now resting elf and says "You just saved the newest prodigy of the Loki Familia. Lefiya Viridis."